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. ful Improvement UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM SAMUEL DOBMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

VILLE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO RICHARD A. CANFIELD, OF

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

STOPPER-MAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

Application filed September 19, 1911. Serial No. 650,132.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM SAMUEL Donna and ROBERT CYnUs MANVILLE, citi Zens of-the United States, residing, respectively, at Brooklyn, in the-county of Kings and State of New York, and Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usein Stopper-Making Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to the manufacture of a bottle-stopper, 'or seal,

com risin a metal ca cal in a seal1n c b D disk (cork) and surmounted by a retainerring adapted to engage an internal annular groove in the bottle-mouth, the retainer ring having a centrally located tab, or finger-piece, which may be bent upwardly and used to dislodge the ring in unsealing the bottle.

The cap and locking-ring are formed frbin adouble-disk blank (Figure 35), which is punched from a sheet-metal strip; one (the ring) disk is ring-pierced, as shown in Fig. ll; the cap-disk and the finger-piece (central tab) of the retainer ring are then subjected to a cupping and beading operation, producing the form shown in Figs. 50 and 51; a folding operation then occurs (Fig. 60), producing the form shown in Figs. 62 and (33; the ring-disk is then-subjected to a. flanging operation (up-flanged) (Figs. 67 and 68),producing the form shown in Figs. 69 and 70; the cork-disk, or sealdisk, is then introduced (Fig. 7 2), and the downturned flange of the cap disk is clenched thereon (Fig. 73) and, finally, the product is discharged from the machine in a manner which will be understood: from Figs. 75 and 77.

The primary object is to provide amachine capable of economically producing, on a commercial scale, the bottle-seal, or stopper, referred to. l

It may be stated preliminarily that the invention, in its preferred embodiment, comprises a fixed, bed mOunted die-plate, having therein dies adapted to receive the product in its various stages of formation; a horizontally-reciprocating carrier, or slide thereon having recesses into which the blanks are elevated from the lower dies at the various stages; and three vertically-re- .linei of Fig. 1

ciprocating punch-equipped cross-heads, the

AND ROBERT oYnus MAN- first in order carrying the blanking-punch,

the second carrying the ring-piercing punch and the cupping and heading punch (for cupping andbeading the cap and for beading the tab of the retainer-ring and the third carrying the blank-lowering punch (delivering to the folder), the ring-flanging punch, the cap-clenching punch, and the discharge puncl The carrier-slide stops for an instant in its initial position ('atthe extreme left); also, in the second position (at the extreme right) and, also, in its third position (halfway posit-ion), on its return stroke. A cross-head not heretofore mentioned carries a locking-pin which co-acts with two'perforations in the slide and locks-it inits first (left) position and in its second (right) position. In the intermediate position, the

actuating cam holds itstationary for an instant, dur ng which t1me the second punch-carrymg cross-head (third in time of action) acts to perform the cupping and heading operation mentioned. The corkdisks are containedin a hopper having rotary bottom, which, by centrifugal act-ion, delivers the cork-disks to a chute, from which they are depressed, one by one, into the path of a plunger which feeds them between the cork-inserting and clenching dies.

The invention is illustrated, in its preferred embodiment, in the accompanying drawings, 1n which-- Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of the improved machine; Fig. 2, a left-side view with the drive-shaft in section, the view being taken as indicated at line 2 of Fig. '1; Fig. 3, a right-side elevation; Fig. 4:, an enlarged plan section taken as indicated at and showing the upper camshaft; Fig. 5, a vertical section taken on line 5 of Fig. 4, and showing a detail of the clutch mechanism; Fig. 6, a plan section taken as indicated at line 6 of 7 a section as indicated at line 7 of Fig. 5;

Fig. 8, an inner face view of the hub of they gear-wheel. which drives theupper cam-shaft and showing the clutch-recesses therein; Fig. 9, an outer face view of the collar fixed on 'the upper cam-shaft and in which is located a sliding key or clutch member; Fig. 10, a-

plan section taken as indicated at line 10 of Fig. 1, showing the guides forthe upper Fig. 5; Fig.

cork-feeding slide; Fig. 13, a broken section cross-heads; Fig. 11, a section taken as indicated at linell of Figs. 1 and 3, showing the lower cam-shaft which serves to actuate the lower dies and blank lifters; Fig. 12, a section taken as indicated at line, 12 of Fig. 11 and showing the cam which operates the 18, a left-side view of the. cork-feeding mechanism; Fig. 19, a section taken as indi cated at line 19 of Fig. 13, this view showing a section of the chute into which the corks are delivered by centrifugal action;

- Fig. 20, a section taken as indicated at line 20 of Fig. 19; Fig. 21, asection taken as indicated at line 21 of Fig. 19, showing the plunger which delivers the corks to the corking and clenching devices; Fig. 22, a section as indicated at line 22 of Fig. 13 and showing a cork-channel; Fig. 23, a broken View of the cork-hopper, showing theopening through which the corks are centritugally discharged; Fig. 24, a plan view of the dieplate (for the lower dies) detached from the machine; Figs. 25,26 and 27 plan views of the detached carrier-slide, showing respectively, the extreme left, the extreme right, and the intermediate positions;' Fig.

. 28, a bottom view of thcc'arrier-slide; Fig.

29, a plan section taken 'asindicated at line 29 of Fig.1 showing the bed inplan'a'nd various plungers therein which serve to elevate the lower dies or blank-lifters, as the case may he; Fig. 30, an enlarged vertical section taken as indicated at line 30 of Fig.

-1 showing the carrier-locking device,.this

View showing the members in different positlons from those in whlch they are shown in the general vlews; Fig. 31,.asect1on taken as indicated at line 3101: F igsQl and 11 and showing the blanking dies, that is, the dies which punch the blanks froma strip of sheet metal; Fig. 32, a section taken as indicated.

at line 82 of Fig. 31; Fig. 33, an enlarged vertical section of the blanking-diesshown in Fig. 31, the section being parallel with the section in Fig. 31: Fig. v34, 2. plan view of the combined female die and stripper of the blanking-dies; Fig. 35, a view of the blank produced by the dies shown in Fig.

i 33; Fig. 36, a section taken as indicated at line/36 of Fig. 13 showing a detail of an automatically-actuated feed-stop serving to regulate the feed of the strip from which the blanks are punched; Fig. 37, a section taken as indicated at line 37 of Fig. 13 and showing a further detail of the feed-stop; Fig.

33, a section taken as indicated at 38 of Figs. 1 and 11, showing the ring-piercing dies; Fig. 39, an enlarged broken'section of the ring piercing dies shown in Fig. 38; Fig. 40, a plan view of the stripper for the piercing die; Fig. 41, a View of the blank produced by the dies shown. in Fig. 39; Fig. 42, a broken longitudinal section taken as indicated at line 42 ofFig. 39, this view showing a stationarily-inounted spring-finger which co-acts with the blank-lifter shown' in Fig. 38; Fig. 43-, a section taken as indicated atline 43 of Figs. 1 and 11, and showing the dies which serve to down-flange and head the cap, and also to-bead the tab of the retainer-ring; Fig. 44, an enlarged broken section parallel with the section shown in 'Fig. 43 and showing a detail of the dies shown in said figure; Fig. 45, a bottom view of the upper dies illustrated in Fig. 44; Fig. 46, a plan view of the lower dies shown in Fig. 44; Fig.47, a pl an view of said lower dies detached from the die-block or guide in which they reciprocate; Fig. 48, a perspective view of the stripper-ring, or blanlnlifter, shown in i Fig. 44; Fig. 49, a section taken as indicated atline 49 of Figs. 29 and 46; Fig. 50, a view of the form given the blank by the dies shown in Fig. 44; Fig. 51, a section taken as indicated at line 51 of Fig. 50; Fig. 52, an enlarged broken section of the dies shown in -Fig.'44; Fig. 53, a fragmentary view'of' the carrier-slide; Figs. 54 and 55, broken sections taken as indicated at the corre-' .sponding lines of Fig. 53 Fig. 56, a section 100 taken as indicated. at line 56 of Figs. 1 and 11. and showing the blank-folding mechanism; Fig..57, a section taken as indicated at line 57 'of Fig. 56; Fig. 58, an enlarged broken sec tion of the blank-folder; Fig. 59, a similar section showing the position after the .piv- 'oted anvil has moved to position over Hr: cap-disk, preparatory to the folding operation; Fig. 60, a section similar to Fig. 58- illustrating the folding operation; Fig. 61'. a section taken as indicated at line 61 of" Fig. Figs. 62 and 63, planand eleva tional views, respectively, of the product after the folding operation; Fig. 64,a pernisln; Fig. 65, a section taken as indicated at. line 65 of Figs. 1 and 11, and showing the ring-flanging dies; Fig. 66, an enlarged section of the dies shown in Fig. 65; Fig. 67, a'similar section showing a blankin osition for uraring-flanging operation; Fig. 68", a similar "section showing the ring-flanging performed; Figs. 69 and 70, plan and elevational views of the product produced by. the operation shown in. Fig. 125 68; Fig. 71, a section taken as indicated at line 71 of Figs. 1 and 11 and showing the cork-introducing and clenching mechanism; Fig. 72, an enlarged broken section similar to the section shown in Fig. 71 and illustrat- 130 spective view of part of the folder mecha- 

